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Bill Morgan: Yes, we campaigned against it. None the less, we need a new inheritance tax to fund social care.

The council tax precept will not be enough to meet the challenge.

By Bill Morgan | 16 January 2016 at 6:30 am | 72 comments

Osborne and the politics of risk

Since the Chancellor is warning of risks to our recovery, the next Budget will have to prove that he doesn’t just feel apprehensive – but acts on it, too.

By Peter Hoskin | 15 January 2016 at 7:30 am | 10 comments

Cashes to Ashes. The incredible shape-shifting story of David Bowie, sorry, Cameron

His latest album, “EU Referendum”, apparently features a mind-bending first – a track, “Renegotiation”, that will contain nothing at all.

By Paul Goodman | 15 January 2016 at 7:15 am | 62 comments

Iain Dale: How slippery Salmond drowned in oil

The injustice of the Durham rape allegation. Mundell comes out. And: who will help me to make my mind up about Europe?

By Iain Dale | 15 January 2016 at 7:00 am | 73 comments

Lewis Baston: Westland – the Heseltine resignation row that rocked Thatcher, 30 years ago this month

Rows, plots, leaks, secret deals, an inquiry, debates in Parliament and the loss of the Defence Secretary – all over “a company with a capitalisation of only £30 million”.

By Lewis Baston | 15 January 2016 at 6:45 am | 10 comments

Isabel Oakeshott: Where is Leave’s leader?

The campaign to quit the EU lacks charismatic faces to put up against the Prime Minister, three former premiers and well-known business figures.

By Isabel Oakeshott | 15 January 2016 at 6:30 am | 60 comments

Re-unite the right? Uniting Eurosceptics against the EU is hard enough

We’re bloody-minded, independent and stubborn at our best – it should perhaps be no surprise that we can be difficult to manage.

By Mark Wallace | 14 January 2016 at 7:00 am | 115 comments

Garvan Walshe: An aggressive foreign policy, and running out of money. Why Saudi is the new Russia.

The new deputy Crown Prince is green and has very, very ambitious plans.

By Garvan Walshe | 14 January 2016 at 6:45 am | 3 comments

Peter Ainsworth: It’s a damaging fallacy to think students are the customers of universities

In reality, it’s graduates who fund universities – and graduates who really know what makes for a good education.

By Peter Ainsworth | 14 January 2016 at 6:30 am | 9 comments

Vaizey, Gauke, Lidington, Brokenshire – Ministerial survivors of the Cameron era

The first yesterday became Britain’s longest-serving Arts Minister, and all are evidence of how David Cameron likes to govern.

By Paul Goodman | 13 January 2016 at 7:15 am | 12 comments

Profile: Sadiq Khan, the Miliband protégé running for Mayor of London

Khan has a remarkable ability to understand what people want to hear, and an almost unbounded willingness to say it.

By Andrew Gimson | 13 January 2016 at 7:00 am | 12 comments

Rebecca Coulson: It doesn’t matter what your favourite novel is – it matters only that you have one

Too many children are growing up without learning to love reading literature.

By Rebecca Lowe | 13 January 2016 at 6:45 am | 30 comments

Syed Kamall: It’s time for your Conservative Association to run a jobs club. Or computing classes. Or a youth project…

Making the state bigger is wrong and rolling it back is not enough.

By Syed Kamall | 13 January 2016 at 6:30 am | 7 comments

Henry Hill: Mundell praises biggest shift of powers since devolution

Also: Osborne attacked by Welsh Labour; Cameron rules out SNP EU demands; Villiers faces calls to quit if she backs Brexit; and more.

By Henry Hill | 13 January 2016 at 6:30 am | 3 comments

A year of To The Point

To mark the anniversary, here’s a selection of ten of the 93 posts so far.

By Peter Hoskin | 12 January 2016 at 11:00 am

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